Table 4. Some community-designed minimum information criteria for metadata specifications in life sciences.

A more complete list can be found at FAIRsharing.

Name	Description	Examples of projects/databases that use this specification	URL
MINSEQE	Minimum Information about a high- throughput SEQuencing Experiment	Developed by the Functional Genomics Data Society. Used in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive, ArrayExpress	http://fged.org/site_media/pdf/MINSEQE_1.0.pdf
MIxS - MIGS/MIMS	Minimum Information about a (Meta)Genome Sequence. The MIMS extension includes key environmental metadata	Developed by the Genomic Standards Consortium. Numerous adopters including NCBI/EBI/DDBJ databases	http://wiki.gensc.org/index.php?title=MIGS/MIMS
MIMARKS	Minimum Information about a MARKer gene Sequence. This is an extension of MIGS/MIMS for environmental sequences	Developed by the Genomic Standards Consortium. Numerous adopters including NCBI/EBI/DDBJ databases	http://wiki.gensc.org/index.php?title=MIMARKS
MIMIx	Minimum Information about a Molecular Interaction eXperiment	Developed by the Proteomics Standards Initiative. Adopted by the IMEx Consortium databases	http://www.psidev.info/mimix
MIAPE	Minimum Information About a Proteomics Experiment	Developed by the Proteomics Standards Initiative. Adopted by PRIDE, World- 2DPAGE and ProteomeXchange databases	http://www.psidev.info/miape
Metabolomics Standards Initiative (MSI) standards	Minimal reporting structures that represent different parts of the metabolomics workflow	Developed by the Metabolomics Standards Initiative (MSI) and the Coordination of Standards in Metabolomics (COSMOS) consortium	http://www.metabolomics-msi.org/
MIRIAM	Minimal Information Required In the Annotation of Models. For annotation and curation of computational models in biology	Initiated by the BioModels.net effort. Adopted by the EBI BioModels database and others	http://co.mbine.org/standards/miriam
MIAPPE	Minimum Information About a Plant Phenotyping Experiment. Covers study, environment, experimental design, sample management, biosource, treatment and phenotype	Adopted by the Plant Phenomics and Genomics Research Data Repository and the Genetic and Genomic Information System (GnpIS)	http://cropnet.pl/phenotypes/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MIAPPE.pdf
MDM	Minimal Data for Mapping for sample and experimental metadata for pathogen genome-scale sequence data	Developed by the Global Microbial Identifier Initiative and EBI. Complies with EBI ENA database submission requirements	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/submit/pathogen-data
FAANG sample metadata specification	Metadata specification for biological samples derived from animals (animals, tissue samples, cells or other biological materials). Complies with EBI database requirements and BioSamples database formats	Developed and used by the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes Consortium	https://github.com/FAANG/faang-metadata/blob/master/docs/faang_ sample_metadata.md
FAANG experimental metadata specification	Metadata specification for sequencing and array experiments on animal samples	Developed and used by the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes Consortium	https://github.com/FAANG/faang-metadata/blob/master/docs/faang_ experiment_metadata.md
FAANG analysis metadata specification	Metadata specification for analysis results	Developed and used by the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes Consortium. NB no public repository exists for this specific datatype	https://github.com/FAANG/faang-metadata/blob/master/docs/faang_ analysis_metadata.md
SNOMED-CT	Medical terminology and pharmaceutical product standard	Commercial but collaboratively-designed product	http://www.snomed.org/snomed-ct